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FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded at Quebec, Canada, in October 1945 when its Member Nations agreed to work together to secure a lasting peace through freedom from want. The membership of FAO now stands at 121 nations.

Director-General

A.H. BOERMA

Unasylva - Published quarterly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Editor

LESLIE J. VERNELL

Started in 1947, this international review of forestry and forest industries is intended to present a range of interests as wide as that of the Department whose work it mirrors. Signed articles express the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Organization.

Forestry Department

Assistant Director General

B.K. STEENBERG

Directors

JACK C. WESTOBY

R.G. FONTAINE

P.J. VAKOMIES

L. E. HUGUET

Cover. A group of students from the FAO Forestry Training Centre
at Conocoto, Ecuador, trying out a new log-loading trailer This centre, financed
by the United Nations Development Programme, has been in operation since 1966
and has already served to expand the number of trained foresters available in
Ecuador which has a high forestry potential. The FAO Project Manager is R. Clopés
Boix (Spain). Ecuador will host the eleventh session of the FAO Latin, American
Forestry Commission in November 1970.

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